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Bursa, Turkey

Argul Weave is located in Bursa, Turkey. It was planned as an office building to attract international textile businesses to rebrand the district as a textile manufacturing hub.

The design considered the rich tradition of Turkish textiles and their making through individual threads interweaving by giant looms. This motif offered a means to integrate the disparate parts of the project into a coherent whole. The material palette was kept to a minimum to emphasize the continuity and plasticity of the design.

Patara Marble, quarried from Burdur, fabricated in Afyon, forms the sinuous banding of the facade. Dark red marble from the Turkish Aegean region forms the building's plinth, and reddish Iroko wood clads the weave's inner areas. As one walks along the facade, its undulations create a changing rhythmical pattern that is enhanced by the continuous play of light and shadow evolving throughout the day.